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Good luck Lat, all the best
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Agreed, but it’s entirely a matter for him .........
Good luck Lat, all the best
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Thank you.Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostAgreed, but it’s entirely a matter for him .........
Good luck Lat, all the best
I haven't booked it yet - at £185 I need to be certain - and will decide in the next few days.
But my Rachmaninov ticket has now arrived.
There are some very good stories on this thread.
I'm pleased it has given people an unlikely opportunity to reminisce.
My parents are ongoing, yes, although their car may not be, sadly.
Whether they are still fully in the picture is another matter and this could be assessed in various ways.
Their minds. My eye. The weather - that sort of thing.
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Lat, I hope you are double-bluffing meOriginally posted by Lat-Literal View PostThank you.
I haven't booked it yet - at £185 I need to be certain - and will decide in the next few days.
But my Rachmaninov ticket has now arrived.
There are some very good stories on this thread.
I'm pleased it has given people an unlikely opportunity to reminisce.
My parents are ongoing, yes, although their car may not be.
Whether they are still fully in the picture is another matter and could be assessed in various ways.
Their minds. My eye. The weather - that sort of thing.
My conscience disallowes me from playing along any further. You must not even spectate such an undertaking.
It's too dangerous, stay away - please.
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I have driven vehicles. I drove and owned a car from the age of 18 to the age of 32. This latest thing all started when I realised the decision 23 years ago not to take any vehicle onto a road because other people are too dangerous should not have meant that I stopped using vehicles altogether. I don't especially want to drive an F1 vehicle at breakneck speed round a race track on an activity day. I was thinking of tractors but you can only do that in Oxfordshire or Wales. Then there was the milk float idea and the bubble car idea but it doesn't seem that there is any off road place for those at all. I suppose an alternative would be to do the basic motorcycle training which people usually do because they want to go on the road.Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostLat, I hope you are double-bluffing me
My conscience disallowes me from playing along any further. You must not even spectate such an undertaking.
It's too dangerous, stay away - please.Comment
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Bear in mind whar Rik Mayall did to himself on his 'quad bike'.Originally posted by Lat-Literal View PostComment
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Yes, that's true and Ozzy Osbourne too.Originally posted by Bryn View Post
But this does have professional trainers.
There is no better feeling of exhilaration than riding a motorcycle over off-road terrain. We cater for all levels of experience from complete novice to experienced road and off-road riders; you don’t even need a licence to take part. A day you will never forget! The perfect Valentine present – Birthday/Valentine Vouchers available.Comment
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Check out the personal injury insurance arrangements Lat. They can be quite miserly - compensation for time off work etc.Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
And I believe St. Valentine came to an untimely end - although he may not have been riding a bike at the time.Comment
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MRDA (Mandy Rice-Davies Applies).Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)Comment
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Yamaha do courses so some significant companies can be involved.Originally posted by Vespare View Post
If you look at this clip, it isn't exactly wild although it could be hard work.
It was hard work whenever I "stalled" the kayak last year and had to catch up.
But there's no traffic and nice countryside:
This one is a bit daft by turning into "the last gang in town".
It's like what they do when selling the gliding dream with some music of the gods playing.
It isn't like that in reality.
But the main point here is that many of the people are not especially young:
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I would have read that as MDMA if you hadn't provided an explanation.Originally posted by Pianorak View PostMRDA (Mandy Rice-Davies Applies).
This is the tractor driving one:
The good thing here is that they provide an opportunity to drive ones without a cabin. You tend to get cabins with the new ones and it would be a bit like being indoors.Last edited by Lat-Literal; 07-08-18, 22:00.Comment
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BMW also - a highly professional outfit:
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Thank you.Originally posted by Vespare View Post
That Level 1 video is very educational because it shows the patience that is needed in the beginning. I found that with the kayaking. It looks like a breeze but it is quite intricate, almost as if being taught golf, - not slow, but steady, although with an impetus through the training to move on. I did eight hours of that at the local lake - four on Sat and four on Sun having emerged from almost a decade, possibly in some respects a lifetime, of being mainly deskbound albeit I have hiked. Then, of course, with all these things you find out that there is masses of other stuff to learn on further levels up. It is almost impossible to believe and questions arise about capability to do that. I haven't returned to kayaks as I feel I need to do Level 1 again although I got the certificate. I don't recall learning to drive a car being quite like it but perhaps it was and just didn't seem like it at the time, being 17/18. Anyway, that video also shows a person lifting a bike. The lifting is arguably one of the more tricky areas. The turning of the kayak back upwards. And after I went in the glider, I was required to steer it by its wing with some push into the hangar although there was towing from the front. But overall, I think that BMW film shows me it is not beyond the realms of approachability.Last edited by Lat-Literal; 07-08-18, 22:37.Comment
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"Mind the ditch John"Originally posted by Lat-Literal View PostI would have read that as MDMA if you hadn't provided an explanation.
This is the tractor driving one:
The good thing here is that they provide an opportunity to drive ones without a cabin. You tend to get cabins with the new ones and it would be a bit like being indoors.
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I learnt tractor driving in the same way I learnt how to ride a motor bike, by bluff and actually doing it. When looking for a job in nature conservation (before the events outlined above) I spent some time working on farms, to gain experience. The first was a large apple and sheep farm, the farm owner being being an architect who employed a farm manager to run the farm. The owner kindly agreed to take me on for two months. The manager and farmhands were clearly more sceptical, and on my first day told me to take the tractor and trailer to a farm machinery depot some miles away to collect a huge door for the apple cold store. The tractor was a rusty old Massey with a rear-mounted forklift, suitable only for farmyard jobs. I set out anyway - it was do or die - and got to the depot in one piece. The trailer (it turned out) was too small to take the door safely. The staff at the depot nevertheless helped me lash it on (vertically), and I drove back without mishap, to general astonishment, avoiding low bridges and overhead wires. I was then shown a vast, jumbled heap of empty wooden 500lb apple boxes and told to put them in tidy stacks, using my fork lift. This I accomplished well before quitting time, to general amazement, and I was accepted as a full member of the team.Originally posted by Lat-Literal View PostThis is the tractor driving one:
The good thing here is that they provide an opportunity to drive ones without a cabin. You tend to get cabins with the new ones and it would be a bit like being indoors.
I only drove tractors without cabins on the farms. Apple picking meant placing the empty 500lb apple boxes between the rows of trees with the forks of the tractor for the pickers to fill from their picking baskets, moving them along as necessary, and taking the full boxes to load onto the trailer. I went on to work on an apple, sheep and hop farm, where my (by now) considerable tractor driving skills were put to good use driving the hop pickers’ trailer. This was a flat trailer with a rail down the middle on which half a dozen pickers stood with billhooks or machetes. Their job was to slash at the hop vines and lay them over the central rail while I drove at exactly the right speed up and down the aisles. When we had enough, I had to drive at speed to the hopping (‘oppin’ ) shed where the vines were grabbed by a hook and a large female workforce was waiting to pick the flowers off the vines onto a conveyor belt. The slightest inaccuracy on my part was greeted with torrents of abuse, so I rapidly became skilled at this.
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